Welcome to “Band Aid,” a kind of millennial spin on the sort of death-match marriage laid out with such venom and heartbreak and cutting-edge humor in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

Anna (Zoe Lister-Jones) and Ben (Adam Pally) are one of those couples who make their friends nervous. When they’re good, they’re pretty spectacular.

Adam Pally, Fred Armisen and Zoe Lister-Jones star in “Band

But when they are bad…. head for the hills.Like Albee’s George and Martha, they know all the buttons to push and just how to push them.

Then something unexpected happens. At a toddler’s birthday party, they playfully start jamming on some kiddie musical instruments. And they enjoy it. And…they enjoy each other.

Eureka! (so to speak).

Anna and Ben decide to turn their monumental fights into monumental songs. What was once toxic is now…maybe…a way to spring themselves from their dead-end jobs (she’s an Uber driver; he’s a freelance graphics guy). And maybe turn their marriage around.

“I’m in no mood for your mood,” sings one.

“You’d better change your attitude,” sings the other.

The thing is, the better they get along, the harder it becomes to create new songs.

Still, Pally and Lister-Jones are the movie’s bitingly brilliant center..They have an amazing chemistry — especially when put in service of bad chemistry.The way they lock eyes over a sink overflowing with dirty dishes is priceless. That they later decide to name their band Dirty Dishes is just icing on the cleverness.

“Band Aid” is scenes from a marriage in a minor key, one of those films that makes you laugh out loud, then, with savage relish, suggests that what’s just happened isn’t all that funny. The dialogue is lacerating and hilarious. The emotional acuity is chilling. And the picture even dares a dangling-participle finale, one that whispers rather than screams.

And here’s the kicker: Lister-Jones not only stars; she’s also the writer and director. Just what she’s been doing and why we haven’t heard more about her is perplexing. Hopefully, “Band Aid” will change all that. For my money, she’s the summer’s other Wonder Woman.

Eleanor Ringel, Movie Critic, was the film critic for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for almost 30 years. She was nominated multiple times for a Pulitzer Prize. She won the Best of Cox Critic, IMAGE Film & Video and Women In Film awards. An Atlanta native, she graduated from Westminster and Brown University. She was the critic on WXIA’s Noonday, a member of Entertainment Weekly's Critics Grid and wrote TV Guide’s movie/DVD. She is member of the National Society of Film Critics and currently talks about movies on WMLB and writes the Time Out column for the Atlanta Business Chronicle.